Evening Star Newspaper, November 5, 1935, Page 30

B_10 LION’S M ESQUITE leaned back against a boulder, munched at his beans and “jerk” meat.and blissfully contemplated the miracle of a late Summer sunset which crowned the purpling peaks of . the San Bernardino range with a halo of molten gold. Thirty long years of prospecting, and then the unbeliev- able reality of hav- ing made the lon sought-for “strike”! Really, it was all his own. But Mes- quite, his heart as wide as his_shoul- ders, was willing to share his find with the strapping young Joey, who sat across the smoldering supper fire from him and ate silently, his tanned forehead creased in thought. After all, Joey had helped him work the tunnel after he had found a bare outcropping of virgin gold in the mounded hardpan and shale. “No more beans for us, son,” Mes- quite promised. “In maybe a month or so we’ll pull out and go to Frisco on a spree, the two of us, and live like millionaires.” “Swell, all right,” Joey assented, abstractedly. “Do you really think this vein will hold out?” The old man chuckled and tapped his plate to emphasize his answer. “There's likely enough in that there lode to make the both of us rich as King Midas,” he declared solemnly. “Barring any accidents, of course,” he amended, *’cause you never can be sure.” L “VWELL see soon enough,” prophe- sied Joey. In a month's time they had worked the vein 50 feet back into the hill, and in the two flour sacks in the tent lay nuggets and flakes of yellow metal which would assay nearly a quarter of a million dollars . . . almost 500 pounds of practically pure metal. The ease with which it could be picked out of the vein after the rock had been loosened fascinated Joey. He hated to stop working long enough to eat and sleep. But some one had 0 g0 out eventually for food supplies and to deposit the gold at the bank in Needles. They drew straws, and Mesquite was chosen to go. As Mesquite took a final tug at the diamond hitch fastening the precious pack on one of the mules and set off down the hill Joey smiled for the first time in several weeks, HIS plans, mulled over for many long nights and during the count- less hours he spent mn the workings, setting dvnamite and picking out free gold from the debris, were working perfectly. He had calculated that the old man would be gone for three weeks or a month. What would stop him from doing more and faster work, putting the majority of the gold in a separate sack and hiding it where he could eome back later, after they had worked the vein out, d a lion’s share? Mesquite was old, anyway, Joey Tea- soned, and didn’t need so much. Joey had learned, during a two- year job in the Northern logging camps, how to make “soup” or nitro- glycerin from dynamite. He merely DAILY SHORT STORY By Katherine Gorman. Joey worked beaverlike. SHARE submerged a half dozen sticks of the dynamite in a ket- tle of water and boiled them. The oily yellow scum that formed he very carefully scopped up in a spoon. Into a pint bottle he placed a wad of woolen yarn pulled from his shirt, so that when he slow- ly allowed the ‘soup” to slide down the inside of the bottle, there would be no shock as the drops hit the bottom. Joey knew too well that even a aneeze might prove enough to - detonate the ex- tremely sensitive and deadly fluid. * ok ok % 'REGARDLESS of danger, Joey | | worked beaverlike at his decep- | tion. The “soup” did twice the work of dynamite, and in two weeks he was | delighted to find that his own per- | sonal cache was heavier than the amount Mesquite had borne away, while the bag they were to share con- tained only slightly less. But the strain was beginning to tell on Joey's nerves. Working in- cessantly. he was hollow-eyed and pale from loss of sleep and excite- ment. Momentarily he feared that he might have miscalculated the length of time necessary to make the trip out of the mountains and return and that Mesquite would return un- expectedly and discover him in his act of treachery. He'd hate to have to take the old man's life, but there would be no other course. He determined the earliest day on which he could expect the old prospec- | tor’s return and decided to bury his | gold on the day previously. On the evening of that day Joey celebrated | by quitting his work just before twi- | light and gloating over his hoard be- | fore secreting it. The golden beams | of the setting sun played enticingly on the reddish metal. * x % * EALTH, power, freedom glinted from the open mouth of the ‘\sflck. playing upon Joey’s senses like the songs of the Lorelei. One more charge . . . and then he would bury the sack! One more pound or so of the metal for himself before he would again start filling their sack. Joey looked carefully down the hill and the long valley before he entered the tunnel. No sign of him vet! At the far end of the digging he prepared to pour a small amount of | the powerful explosive over the fuse | which was protruding from a small hole drilled in the wall of the vein. | A stone. dislodged from the hill above, | fell into the mouth of the tunnel | startlingly, shattering the deathlike | stillness. | Joey's frayed nerves jumped. “Mes- quite!” he cried as he whirled to face the entrance. The bottle, half-filled with liquid death, struck sharply upon the basalt side of the shaft. . . . Two days later Mesquite recon- structed what had happened. ‘“Poor Joey!” was his epitaph. “He must have worked hard for us, and then had to leave an old codger like me the lion’s share!” He reverently removed | his battered hat and a tear glinted in his eye. (Copyright. 1935.) | | AGUINALDO DENOUNCES FRAUDS IN ELECTION Denies, However, That His Fol- lowers Are Likely to Engage in Subversive Disorders. By the Associated Press. MANILA, P. I, November 5.—Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo yesterday bitterly de- nounced alleged frauds in the Sep- tember 17 election in which he was ¥ overwhelmingly beaten, but denied his followers were likely to engage in Bubversive disorders. " American and Filipino officials openly fear resentment of Aguinaldo's followers might flare into violence. fear resentment of Aguinaldo's fol- Jowers might flare into violence. * The little leader of the 1899-1900 surrection against the United States tharged the election w: national &isgrace” and severely criticized sub- $equent actions of the Philippine con- Stabulary as repressive. Gov. Gen. Frank Murphy, he as- serted was ‘“‘unfair,” since he per- mitted members of the insular cabinet to campaign for Quezon, and then referred fraud protests to these same omcials for investigation. : He laughed at a denial of con- stabulary charges that plots to assas- sinate Quezon were being made. “Am I going to attend the com- | monwealth inaugural?” he repeated. “How could I when I maintain the le election was illegal?” | THE EVENING STAR. WASHINGTOY, CTZENS APPRVE SHFETY CAVPAEN Forest Hills Association Also Indorses Chest Drive for Funds. ‘The Star safety campaign was unanimously indorsed last night by the Forest Hills Citizens’ Association at & meeting in the Ben W. Murch School. J. N. McCollum, treasurer, introduced the resolution. Mrs. Leslie B. Wright notified the association that the protest against granting a license to sell liquors at a business enterprise located at Albe- marle street and Connecticut avenue presented at the hearing by Wilbur La Roe, jr., member of the association was approved by the A. B. C. Board. Mrs. Wright was instructed to send a letter to the A .B. C. commending its action in this matter. The Community Chest presented pictures with sound effects to show the way in which funds are distributed. The association unanimously indorsed the campaign. The Homeopathic Hospital an- nounced, through Dr. E. F. Sapping- | ton, that a drive will be made to build a general hospital in the Chevy Chase area. Dr. Sappington requested the support of the association. The group will be notified when defnite plans are completed. The matter was Teferred to the Committee on Streets, Highways and Sewers, Maj. Gen. Mason M. Patrick was authorized to act for the group to obtain better bus service from the Forest Hills area to Western High School. Mrs. Wright announced that the new wing of the Alice Deal School was open today, but the school was still overcrowded by about 250 students. | QUESENBERRY GETS SEVEN MORE YEARS Pleads Guilty to Wounding Fed- eral Agent—Tries to Bargain With Judge. Special Dispatch to The Star, LEESBURG. Va. November §.— Old Tom Quesenberry, Southwest Virginia mountaineer, came here from the State Penitentiary today to have seven years added to the terms he is serving for shooting law officers dur- ing & still raid last March, After pleading guilty to wounding George Kirkpatrick, Federal agent, the mountaineer showed a disposition to bargain with the court over his sentence. “I'm not hard to please, but T want | to know what I am going to get,” he told Judge J. R. H. Alexander. *I | want to get back to my job, because | | jobs are hard to get these days.” | | * Quesenberry added that he thought | | the 20-year sentence imposed on him | for killing Officer C. J. McCleary of Alexandria during one of two fights with police last March was all he was going to get. 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